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Shaping the transnational sphere : experts, networks, and issues from the 1840s to the 1930s / edited by Davide Rodogno, Bernhard Struck and Jakob Vogel.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in contemporary European history ; Volume 14.
- Studies in Contemporary European History ; Volume 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transnationalism--History.
- Transnationalism.
- Expertise--Social aspects--History.
- Expertise.
- International agencies--History.
- International agencies.
- International cooperation--History.
- International cooperation.
- Intellectual cooperation--History.
- Intellectual cooperation.
- Social planning--International cooperation--History.
- Social planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the second half of the nineteenth century a new kind of social and cultural actor came to the fore: the expert. During this period complex processes of modernization, industrialization, urbanization, and nation-building gained pace, particularly in Western Europe and North America. These processes created new forms of specialized expertise that grew in demand and became indispensible in fields like sanitation, incarceration, urban planning, and education. Often the expertise needed stemmed from problems at a local or regional level, but many transcended nation-state borders. Experts helped
- Contents:
- title page; Imprint; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I Experts; 1 Professionalism or Proselytism? Catholic 'Internationalists' in the Nineteenth Century; 2 Sanitizing the City; 3 Policy Communities and Exchanges across Borders; 4 The Rise of Coordinated Action for Children in War and Peace; Part II Networks; 5 Building a Transnational Network of Social Reform in the Nineteenth Century; 6 The Politics of Expertise; 7 The Road from Damascus; 8 From Peace Advocacy to International Relations Research; Part III Issues
- 9 Transnational Cooperation and Criminal Policy10 International Congresses of Education and the Circulation of Pedagogical Knowledge in Western Europe, 1876-1910; 11 From Transnational Reformist Network to International Organization; 12 Shaping Poland; Select Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781782383598
- 178238359X
- OCLC:
- 893735612
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